Microsoft’s Cloud Computing platform Windows Azure provides a comprehensive set of services for building and running scalable applications targeting cloud. In this session we go on a coding tour using open source development tools (Eclipse, Command line), languages (PHP & Java) and applications (Drupal, WordPress) on the Windows Azure platform. On this tour, see how web applications can use the scalable compute and storage services with Windows Azure, secure connectivity and data service techniques in the cloud using oData and Microsoft SQL Azure.

Vijay Rajagopalan

Microsoft

Vijay Rajagopalan is a Principal Architect & Sr. Director for Microsoft’s Interoperability & Platform Strategy. Vijay has over 16 years of industry experience focused on Product Strategy, Software Architecture, design and engineering and has worked with customers, partners & open source communities including IBM, Oracle, SAP, Siebel, Intel, Eclipse Foundation & Apache Software Foundation. He has been at Microsoft for more than 12 years in number of engineering & strategy roles and most recently drove modeling, business frameworks and extensibility for Visual Studio in the company’s Developer Division.